Big budget, little content

Rating: 3/10 (14 September 2007)

Movies about cloning ought to be at least thought provoking. Unfortunately they hardly ever are.
And so is "The Island" The plot is totally absurd. Imagine, there is a company capable of producing clones. They can even control the age of the clones pretty well. They got actually more control than the cloners in "Star Wars Episode 2" have. In Star Wars they can only make the clones grow twice as fast as humans. Whereas in "the Island" they produce them right on the spot.
But they are not enabled to keep them alive, without giving the clones a real live.
And that is the plot line! The guys writing the script, Tredwell-Owen, Kurtzman and Orci, just didn't give a damn on logic. A company, having the above mentioned capabilities, is not enabled, to breed a non-clone baby. No, they produce clones, to produce the child. Which ever way you have a look on this, it is rubbish.
And instead of producing clones just in time, they build a big illusion for them to live in. Yeah sure, makes sense.
All right, it's a SciFi. (Did I mention, I'm a SciFi fan?) So don't let's care too much about plausibility. There are certainly more interesting aspects in the movie, aren't there? No, there is nothing interesting at all! The hero-clone meets his original. The original is a bad person! He is trying to get rid of the clone. And the good clone simply replaces the original. Doing so, by provoking the completely idiotic hit men to shoot the real human.
Everyone surviving this point of the story proves to be a good person. And all together free the poor clones. Yuk! Psychology of the main characters: Implausible, unlikely, not credible. Plot line: Just for the pea-brained! Mr. McGregor recently stated, Star Wars was a big fault. Too dumb, to shallow. And what about the island? Big budget, little content!